AIRPORT ACTIVITY.
CLIPPER'S ARRIVAL.
FLIGHTS TO SYDNEY.
With Taoman Empire Airways' flying boats making several trips across the Tasman this week and Pan-American Airways' Honolulu Clipper arriving tomorrow afternoon, Auckland"s marine airport will experience an exceptionally busy period during the next few days.
The Clipper, which arrived at Canton Island at 3.15 p.m. yesterday, New Zealand time, left on her flight to Noumea at 4..3 C) a.m. to-day. It is expected that she will commence the north-bound return trip on Saturday.
Under the command of Captain J. W. Burgess, the flying boat Awarua will take oft" for Sydney to-morrow morning with 13 passengers and a large quantity of mail and freight. On her return on Friday .--he will carry, anions other*, six passengers who have booked for the flight of the Clipper on its north-bound trip. A flying boat will cross to Sydney again on Saturday carrying several passengers who arrived on the Clipper, and will return to Auckland on Sunday.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19400925.2.27
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 228, 25 September 1940, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
161AIRPORT ACTIVITY. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 228, 25 September 1940, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Auckland Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.
Log in